Machine Learning Contract Job Trends in Bath

Machine Learning (ML)
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Machine Learning 1 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 0.89% 7.14% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 8.20% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £475 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £450 £883 £600
% change year-on-year -49.01% +47.08% +26.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bath

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 61 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 80.36% 87.14% 72.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 46 32
10th Percentile £357 £225 £207
25th Percentile £463 £325 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £481 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +13.24% -5.56%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £513
90th Percentile £675 - £649
Somerset median daily rate £523 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £12.80
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.67%
75th Percentile - - £15.75
90th Percentile - - £16.20
Somerset median hourly rate £62.25 £18.51 £16.00
% change year-on-year +236.30% +15.69% -69.17%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Bath

Machine Learning
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Machine Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality